No
I spent probably as much time parsing what it had done as I would have writing the code from scratch
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Got in the way: Parsing output took as long as writing; tests only exercised mocks.
… I decided to let Opus 4.5 have a go. It did a pretty good job, but I spent probably as much time parsing what it had done as I would have writing the code from scratch. I still needed to clean it up, and of course, unsurprisingly, it had made a few tests that only really exercised the mocking it had made. …